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Re: Jules Verne, or Camille Flammarion?

From: Alain Braut <alain~at~brautdurand.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:35:10 +0300 (IDT)
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I saw the V102 in my JV Encyclopedia and I can tell you that it is Camille Flammarion on the stamp.
There is no doubt.

Alain BRAUT


> Dear Friends,
> This is intended mainly to the stamp collectors among you, but not only to
> them, but to all those who can identify the picture of a person: In his
> excellent article "Philatelic Tribute to Jules Verne", in the Jules Verne
> Encyclopedia, Ray Carter writes in page 198 as follows:
> Guinea Bissau came out with another single issue in May of 1981. Verne
> was pictured along with a rocket, but his name did not appear on the
> stamp
> itself (V102).
> If you wish to see how V102 (Scott #413B, Yvert&Tellier #135, Michel #576)
> looks like, you can see it in the excellent web site of my friend Andrzej
> Zydorczak (who contributed all the Polish texts in the JV Virtual
> Library), at
> <http://julver.republika.pl/images/GWINBISS6p_1981.jpg>.
> Since I don't have this stamp in my collection, I looked for it in the
> various
> internet stamp outlets. I found it at
> <http://www.espacelollini.com/cataweb/indexUS.php?etape=timbre&id_timbre=86
> 76>.
> However, the description of the 6 peso stamp there is "Ariane/Flammarion"!
> No
> Verne is mentioned! I wondered how the French astronomer, Camille
> Flammarion,
> looked like, and found the official site of the Camille Flammarion
> Observatory in <http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/flammarion/accueil/>.
> You
> see there a book cover,
> <http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/flammarion/accueil/livre2.jpg>. Compare
> the picture with the one on the stamp. The beard, the bow-tie, the coat,
> etc.
> are identical. Verdict? Not Verne. Am I right, or am I right?
> Best,
> Zvi.
Received on Tue 29 Jun 2004 - 01:35:32 IDT

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